Danny Boyle’s ‘Ink’ To Open Venice Film Festival
Danny Boyle’s Rupert Murdoch biopic Ink will open the Venice Film Festival.
The film, starring Jack O’Connell, Guy Pearce and Claire Foy, will screen on 2 September in the Sala Grande at the Palazzo del Cinema on the Lido.
Boyle directs the feature from a screenplay written by James Graham (Dear England), based on his Tony-nominated play. O’Connell stars as The Sun newspaper editor Larry Lamb with Pearce as Rupert Murdoch. Claire Foy is Jules Davies.
Boyle produces alongside Tessa Ross (Conclave) and Michael Ellenberg (The Morning Show). Ink reunites Boyle and Ross following their collaboration on Slumdog Millionaire. Tracey Seaward (The Two Popes) also produces. Anna Marsh, Ron Halpern, Joe Naftalin, Tonia Davis, Zoe Edwards, James Graham, and Sudie Smyth are executive producers.
Announcing the title, Venice head Alberto Barbera said: “An Oscar-winning director, one of the leading playwrights on the London theater scene, and three of the most acclaimed actors in contemporary British cinema—these are the credentials behind Danny Boyle’s film enhanced by the performances of Jack O’Connell, Guy Pearce and Claire Foy, which screenwriter James Graham adapted from his own play of the same name.
He continued: “It is an account of publisher Rupert Murdoch’s acquisition of the daily newspaper The Sun, which he entrusted to the unscrupulous Larry Lamb, turning it into Britain’s best-selling tabloid at the expense of its rival, The Mirror. I would like to thank StudioCanal, Media Res, and House Productions for granting us the honor of opening the Venice Film Festival with such a highly anticipated film.”
Studiocanal fully financed the film and will release it theatrically in Italy, the UK, France, Germany, Poland, the Benelux, Australia and NZ.
Alwin H. Küchler (Steve Jobs) is DOP, Gareth Pugh & Carson McColl (28 Years Later) are Production and Costume Designers, Fin Oates (How to Have Sex, Warfare) is Editor, Gail Stevens & Rebecca Farhall (28 Years Later) cast the film, and music is by Daniel Pemberton.
Venice runs from September 2 to September 12.
